The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-27

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Augustine With $4,000 being paid out
weekly for wages everybody is enabled to
make both ends meet
1t has been decided by Judge Broome that
the Justices courts have jurisdiction in
criminal cases until Aug. 3, when the new
criminal law takes effect.
Capt. Lancaster, of OcaIa, having been
promoted to be Major of the Second Florida
! Battalion. the Ocala Rifles elected to fill tho
vacancy e. B. Richardson.
| Mr. Northup has sold the Baptist Witness,
of DeLand, of which he has been the pro
! prietOr since January, 1886, to Rev. Mr..
| Plummer, who came hero last spring.
DR.. j. A. Williamson, of Eustis, has been
recommended by the new Democratic exec
utive committee of Lake county, as one of
| the five school commissioners for the
county
Rev. Ebenezer Roote, pastor emeritus of
| Trinity church, st. Augustine, died at 2
| o'clock Monday morning, aged So. He WIS
buried at WOOdlawn cemetery, near st.
| Augustine.
The ice factory at Eustis is running night
and day, and is turning out as fine quality
Of ice as was ever manufactured. 1t cannot
be beat for purity and beauty 1t is being
shipped in every direction.
Wednesday evening little son of p H.
Evans, Esq, of st. Augustine, had the mis-
fortune to fall from a second story window.
The little fellows left leg was broken about
midway between the knee and thigh.
Tom Gyon, Of South Lake Weir, has sold
his orange grove Of six acres, just coming
into bearing, for $1,000, to wealthy
CharlestOnian, who will erect on the
grounds beautiful villa for a winter home.
Notwithstanding the extreme heat of the
past two weeks, and the fact that over
| IN aI-ipn
building operations at st. Augustine there
has not been single instance of prostra-
ton.
Proskey Bros, of Silver Springs, have
purchased the Jacksonville tug Louise for
81 900, and will use her for excursion par
ties on the river and to tow cypress logs
for their Single factory, the largest in the
State
S. J. Frost, of Merritt Island, received
a letter last Saturday announcing the death
of his wife, Mrs Julia Frost She died in
Brooklyn, n. Y, July u, of heart disease.
Her death was very sudden, as 1t was only
one hour from the time of the attack until
her death.
The citizens of Winnemissett subscribed
money enough at a recent citizens meeting
to build a new pOstoffice and pay off the
debt on the school house. The school prop
erty will now become a perpetual trust in
Jne DanlS OF JHe 6cnOOl Board.
The city fathers of Ocala have bought of
James A, Harris a lot 50x100, east of Mon
teZIma Hotel, and alongside of the track of
the Florida Southern railroad, for 81 600
for market house purposes The Council
are now considering the water works ques-
ton.
Banker Dunn has exchanged his lot, north
east corner of the square, at Ocala, for
James A. Harris on the southeast corner,
and given in exchange 81, 900, on which he
will erect n brick bank and store block
which for striking and original architectural
design is to surpaSs anything in Ocala.
IN its notes on the hanging of Henry
Virgins at Palatka Saturday, the Palatka
NelOs says that Rev. Father Swembergh, of
Orlando, who was the officiating priest, has
attended ll3 executions. Perhaps no other
| priest minister of the Gospel or officer of
the law, Of a like age, has attended so many
W. Milford Ingraham has received a
handsome present from the Silsby Manu-
| featuring Company, of Seneca Falls, n Y,
in the form of a solid silver speaking trum-
| pet inlaid with gold. 1t is inscribed as fol
| lows: presented to w. Milford Ingraham
| Chief st. Augustine Fire Department, bv
the Silsby Manufacturing Company, 1887
L. w. Agnew, of Ocala, has discovered
| an inexhaustible bed of mari and lime de
| post a mile and a half south of town, on
the narrow gauge. He sent samples of it to
| Charleston for analysis and ID is pronounced
the finest thing Of its kind yet found in the
State. Mr.. Agnew will proceed at once to
erect limo and fertilizer works on the de
| post.
A. S. Matlacls, of Sorrento, has been tax
ing samples of different fruits that have
ripened i'll that vicinity and is preserving
| them in glass jars. He has now samples of
| plums, grapes, pears and peaches. and will
| continue to add to the list as other fruits
| ripen. He intends by this means to show
winter visitors what that section is capable
of doing.
One of the most beneficial institutions in
Palatlla is the sulphur swimming bath, and
the ladies seem to understand its value as
health preServer and complexion improver.
1t is well attended by gentlemen, too, but
| the ladies seem to be its best patrons. Last
Thursday fifty-eght ladies visited the bath
and eight were turned away because all the
| dressing rooms were filled. Tho next day
thirty-three ladies patronized the crystal
/ pool.
A man working upon the farm of Sena-
tor Mann, about nine miles northwest Of
| Brooksville, brought to town last week
! stalks of corn measuring twenty-seven feet
in length. Each stalk had three ears of
! corn, some of the ears measuring twelve
inches in length and ten and half around
! the large end. There are eighty acres of
this corn and the stalks spoken of were
taken at random. The field will average at
the least calculation thirty-ive or forty
bushels to the acre.
Lightning struck the handsome cottage
| residence at EuStis of Rev. j. II. Potter on
| Sunday, July "a, during the heavy shower
| then prevailing, and the residence was en-
| tirely destroyed by fire, together with n good
| part of the furniture. Rev. Mr.. Potter and
! his wife were home ut the time. and the COM
munity feels that il is matter of special
! congratulation that neither one of them was
! injured. Their residence was in the suburbs
! of the town, and the storm was so heavy
that very few knew of their misfortune I'M
til it was all ovor.
Thursday evening, several well known
! young men of st. Augustine, assembled at
a popular drug store for the purpose of
testing the quality of an Immense water
melon which they had kept on ice all day
| During the evening, however, some fnnd
! mcarnatc without the fear Of the Lord be
| fore his eyes, pmctured the melon IN sew
oral places and filed it full Of quinnc The
| identity Of the guilty party could not he es-
! tablished, but il would have filed photog-
rapher'S soul with delight, to have seen the
faces of these young men after the first bite
The statistician of the Agricultural De
| partment has prepared the following cSti-
! mate Of the condition of the growing crops